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Painting --- Europa [Mythological character] --- Titian --- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [Boston, Mass.]

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"The Boston Harbor Islands have been called Boston's "hidden shores." While some are ragged rocks teeming with coastal wildlife, such as oystercatchers and harbor seals, others resemble manicured parks or have the appearance of wooded hills rising gently out of the water. Largely ignored by historians and previously home to prisons, asylums, and sewage treatment plants, this surprisingly diverse ensemble of islands has existed quietly on the urban fringe over the last four centuries. Even their latest incarnation as a national park and recreational hub has emphasized their separation from, rather than their connection to, the city. In this book, Pavla Šimková reinterprets the Boston Harbor Islands as an urban archipelago, arguing that they have been an integral part of Boston since colonial days, transformed by the city's changing values and catering to its current needs. Drawing on archival sources, historic maps and photographs, and diaries from island residents, this absorbing study attests that the harbor islands' story is central to understanding the ways in which Boston has both shaped and been shaped by its environment over time"--

Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Human ecology --- Archipelagoes --- History. --- Massachusetts --- Massachusetts. --- Boston (Mass.) --- Boston Harbor Islands (Mass.) --- Environmental conditions.

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Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the "spirit realm." In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city.Take Back What the Devil Stole centers Donna's encounters with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women's religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna's religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Through the gripping story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes, and their spiritual worlds.

Christianity and other religions --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- African. --- Haskins, Donna. --- Boston (Mass.) --- Religious life and customs. --- African American religion. --- Boston. --- black women. --- ethnography of religion. --- lived religion. --- spirituality.

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Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the "spirit realm." In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city.Take Back What the Devil Stole centers Donna's encounters with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women's religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna's religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Through the gripping story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes, and their spiritual worlds.

Christianity and other religions --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- African. --- Haskins, Donna. --- Boston (Mass.) --- Religious life and customs. --- African American religion. --- Boston. --- black women. --- ethnography of religion. --- lived religion. --- spirituality. --- Afro-Caribbean religions. --- African American women --- Religious biography --- Religion.

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In Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston, Michael Rawson examines how the city's relationship with its natural surroundings informed its early growth and development. His compelling, well-researched narrative touches on several milestones on Boston's road to modernity, including the Common's conversion from a place of labor to a place of leisure, the emergence of pastoral suburbs as a respite from an increasingly urbanized landscape, and the long fight over a proposed municipal water system to bring fresh water to those who needed it most.Perhaps the book's most important lesson comes from a frustrated mariner who, upset over the maltreatment of the harbor, laments that "the past seems to be forgotten, the present only is regarded as of importance, and a veil is drawn over the future." Eden on the Charles is a valiant effort to combat such shortsightedness, reminding us that the key to building a successful community lies in respecting the natural resources that provide for it and in understanding our responsibility to our fellow citizens.

City planning --- Human ecology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- History --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Government policy --- Management --- Boston (Mass.) --- City of Boston (Mass.) --- Beantown (Mass.) --- بوسطن (Mass.) --- Būsṭun (Mass.) --- Бостон (Mass.) --- Горад Бостан (Mass.) --- Horad Bostan (Mass.) --- Бостан (Mass.) --- Bostan (Mass.) --- Бостън (Mass.) --- Bostŭn (Mass.) --- Βοστώνη (Mass.) --- Vostōnē (Mass.) --- Bostono (Mass.) --- بوستون (Mass.) --- Pô-sṳ-tun (Mass.) --- 보스턴 (Mass.) --- Bosŭt'ŏn (Mass.) --- Posŭt'ŏn (Mass.) --- Pokekona (Mass.) --- בוסטון (Mass.) --- Bostonia (Mass.) --- Bostona (Mass.) --- Bostonas (Mass.) --- ボストン (Mass.) --- באסטאן (Mass.) --- Bostons (Mass.) --- 波士顿 (Mass.) --- Boshidun (Mass.) --- Social conditions --- Environmental conditions.